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Smithsonian Institution

institution & museum founded in 1846 in Washington, D.C. by a bequest of James Smithson (1765?-1829), Eng. scientist: branches of the Institution cover a wide range of fields in the arts and sciences
also, unofficially, Smithsonian Institute

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